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SCCSIC Lively Arts TV B4 The Sacramento Bee Monday November 12 1979 The Transformed Priscilla 0 See You Later Procrastinator By Marian Christy The Boston Globe and fake black lashes and heavy makeup This Priscilla is strawberry-blonde pale fragile She acknowledges the metamorphosis but not in psychological terms and certainly not in a before-and-after Elvis Presley context She talks of being a blonde as if it is pure physicality and to a certain degree female frivolity "I like change" she says like being The banter is interrupted by a suggestion that this change represents the shedding of a cocoon of the black hair being associated with her previous life with Elvis of her blondeness implying a new freedom She answers generally avoiding the preciseness of the question Being BLONDE IS light and uplifting" There is a brief pause tried to go darker I just do Her eyes expertly shadowed look downward "I seem to associate being down with black hair She has said something heavy so she giggles briefly to shatter the suggestion of gloom she chirps have more fun" The interview is jolted by that statement when a Wella Co representative interrupts Priscilla with a sharp though polite reminder that the words are a slogan of a rival firm Priscilla Presley you see has signed up with Wella to appear in their hair product ads and to be their spokesperson To have the blonde Priscilla Presley an ex-brunette say blondes are by being blondes is of course a public relations no-no The subject is changed Priscilla Presley does not have to work Six years ago she divorced Elvis Presley reportedly getting a $17 million settlement and $8000 a See PRESLEY PageB5 HE THING IS GOT ALL THIS vacation time and comp time coming and have to take it before Feb 1 and figure out when to take it and where to go when I do take it if Gloria can get a few days off whenever it is I decide to take a few days off if she decides that she wants to take a few days off at the same time I decide to take a few days off and go to wherever it is we decide to go when we decide to go If you follow me Some people plan their vacations a year in advance They sit down on Aug 12 and say to each other July 31 we will arrive in Hilton Head SC at 6:30 pm eat dinner at 8:15 (a New York rare) and leave for home on Aug There are people who do that And I wish I could do that As does Gloria wish I could do that But I am a person of impulse At noon of a Sunday I will say dressed and drive to Truckee where they are opening a new hardware store with hardwood floors which is the only kind of hardware store I Gloria who is already dressed anyway and splendidly will say OK but how come I changed my mind about going to the movie I said last Wednesday that I wanted to see this Sunday Then I will remember that I really wanted to see the movie and so go to the movie and like it and will be sorry we go to the hardware store with hardwood floors in Truckee wanted to sue a couple of times" she is saying if I did that it would just draw attention to these stories And people would think they are true The ANGER DISSIPATES as quickly as it appeared Priscilla Presley 33 very beautiful and surprisingly tiny the woman behind the big legendary man the mother of his only child Lisa now 11 smiles a slow-motion smile I she is saying calmly about the stories she finds unpalatable "is wait for a week to go by The next time around somebody else is on the What is striking almost shocking is that the current Priscilla Presley seems to have little or no resemblance to the Priscilla Presley of the past as if there are two different women Priscilla was a definite brunette with jet-black teased hair EW YORK She is musing about the stark reality of being who she is the former Mrs Elvis Presley She is well aware she is in the eye of the continuing Presley turbulence and cult She says she shudders at the sight of herself plastered on the covers of movie magazines and gossip newspapers and at stories written about her that are in her words Priscilla Presley says this interview exclusive and carefully planned makes her feel as if she is walkinga tightrope awful and I hate she is saying about speculative stories that crop up everywhere "But I've got no control over these The memories mount in her brain and come crashing through beautiful eyes that are suddenly sparked with anger Priscilla Presley has a far different image today above than she had in 1967 when she married Elvis Presley above right Her hairstyle and makeup went through especially dramatic changes 1 Davis 'Pinafore' Sails Beautifully fi djft 4 Vi By Robert A Masullo Bee Reviewer I 1 IV Linda Amelia Hughes 4 (Nf5- ''I fl Jo Ann Trujillo '9 -4 m- Winona Sample Connie Reitman 1 1 OMETIMES I THINK INDECISIVE When I feel guilty about being so indecisive I take action For example a week ago Pam Slater who also types for this here paper was trying to unload a pair of United Airlines half-off discount tickets and asked me if I were interested because she knew that I had all this vacation time and comp time coming and know when to take it or where to go when I did take it you take the tickets have to take your vacation time and comp time before Dec 15 when these coupons said Pam decisively Conditionally and for a nice price I took the tickets The conditions were (1)1 would pay Pam in installments and (2) if I decided (that word again) that I firm up plans I would give the coupons back to Pam within 72 hours Pam Slater is a very fair person yes she is Naturally the thing to do when you have discount airline tickets is to fly as far away as possible to take full advantage of the savings So I told Gloria to call her old high school friend in Vermont and tell her we would be there sometime before Dec 15 Then I told the big guy here that I was tentatively sort of possibly planning to go to New England to cover the all-important crucial Vermont primary I told the big guy be the bellwether of the nation for 1980 Vermont must be i questionable traditions of the British Navy He gives us an admiral who rose to the top because never thought of thinking for myself at all a captain who prides himself on never hardly saying a goody-goody seaman who loves the daughter the daughter who loves beneath her station a chubby strolling saleswoman who loves the captain the spinster cousin who loves the admiral: and a villain They get involved in an improbable melodrama that ends with the prospect of a triple wedding aboard the Pinafore Those involved in the production all deserve much praise Producers Malcolm MacKenzie and Marthat Dickman director Alan Stambusky set designer David Wagner choreographer Harry Johnson costume designer Anne Ough and their assistants who are too numerous to name did a first-rate job Musical director Jerome Rosen a composer conductor and music professor at UC Davis did a fine job with his first venture He seemed to get more than one would have thought possible out of 29 musicians who made up the orchestra However the size of the orchestra was a liability For the many rousing numbers of this comic opera a little more oomph was needed Only greater numbers could have provided that Luwana Quitiquit Dana Pierce Hedge AVIS ONE would have to go far to find a more spirited more enthusiastic more enjoyable production of than the one put on this past weekend by The Davis Comic Opera Company If you missed it there will be further opportunities to see it at the Veterans Memorial Theater at 815 pm on Wednesday Thursday Friday or Saturday and I strongly recommend your doing so What this production offers as its number one attraction is fun This starts with the low price of the tickets ($375 general $275 students) and ends with confetti and balloons falling on your head as the final curtain falls In between you get a delightfully humorous program (which contains notations such as: "Please do not sing along with the music it confuses the a sparkling stage set gorgeous costumes spunky choreography a good deal of excellent acting and singing and all the intrinsic joys of the most popular of all collaborations of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan If you come out of this theater without a smile on your face you probably should get a job with the Ayatollah This is not to say this is flawless endeavor But what perfect is never so significant as to take away from the enjoyment of the whole I doubt that there is anyone in the English speaking world who is totally unaware of the story Bits and pieces of it have been worked into scores of TV variety shows Its song I Was A (which contains the lines polished up that handle so carefully That now I am the Ruler of the would have made any top 40 list of the 1870s Consequently I go into a detailed recapitulation What the tale boils down to is a good poke in the ribs of the concept of Discipline (with a hig D) To do it liberettist Gilbert looks at the an Iroquois law shall follow the status of their as an example of the respect which Indian women are held However for the Indian woman achievement is secondary to overall achievement for the she explained work may be parallel (to rights groups) but you must recognize that we are different and let us join you at our iW Indian Women And Their Aims ByMelva Arditti Special to The Bee Jam the fire of time the endless pillar that has withstood death The support of an invincible nation Iam the stars that have guided lost men Iam the motheroften thousand dying children Iam the fire of time I am an Indian woman ATHY MARTINEZ QUOTED this powerful poem by Niki Paulzine in a speech here last week sponsored by Sacramento Women for Equality Martinez a Pit River Indian is an activist both the Indian and rights movements In contrast with this portrait of strength is the widespread misconception of the Native American woman as apathetic passive and stoic which Martinez claims is due in large part to misrepresentation by the American movie industry taken the least amount of factual data and combined it with the wildest she said Martinez noted that a major reason for the perpetuation of this false image is the desire to retain their tribal identity and not be assimilated into the mainstream Philosophical values she said also set the Indian apart: view ourselves in a sacred relationship with nature: white people see themselves in conquest of nature" She cited community and as Indian priorities that contrast sharply with her interpretation of white priorities individual and excitement" The unique legal situation of Native Americans also tends to isolate them from the mainstream The differing social customs that separate tribe from tribe the problems of sovereignity and treaty rights and questions of state versus federal authority create problems that make Native Americans distinct from other ethnic minorities Although the assertive aspect of the moventent is not generally acceptable to the Native American Martinez explained Indian women are very involved in their tribes with roles assigned equitably She noted that four of the II council members of her own tribe are women She quoted iS FOR thecast: Daniel Grimm was a perfect Ralph Rackstraw His beautiful lyric tenor voice and his super clean-cut acting were just what the part demanded Kate Daby looked and sounded the part of Josephine the daughter as if she were born to the role Her solos were superb Contralto Mary Russick likewise seemed born for the role of Little Buttercup Her acting was the best in a cast that was all good Richard Walters (Capt Corcoran) HAT I HOPED WAS THAT THE BIG GUY would say "Get right on that yarn Michaels pay to board Harold and Maude iwith your friend Leslie the vet pay for discount tickets And if you do good work Michaels buy you a pound of nails at the Truckee hardware store with hardwood floors" But the big guy said none of those things What the big guy said was any Vermont could start I said weakly But nothing worked And within 72 hours I was forced to return the discount plane tickets to Pam because (1) I afford to pay the installments and (2) even if I could have afforded to pay the installments I have afforded to pay for the rest of the trip a said Pam make Vermont sound so nice I think use the discount tickets myself and go can cover the Vermont I said And so here I am all this vacation time and comp time waiting to be taken before Feb 1 and sans plans Think call my friend Leslie the vet Maybe board me EVERAL ISSUES OF concern to Native American women will be discussed Nov 15 at a program entitled American Women on the sponsored by the Sacramento Community Commission for Women Panelists will include: Connie Reitman a planner with the Inter Tribal Council of California Dana Pierce Hedge legislative liaison with the Association of Indian Manpower Programs: Luwana Quitiquit a justice assistant with the Office of Criminal Justice Planning Winona Sample a consultant with the state Department of Education Linda Amelia Hughes an arts and crafts instructor with the inter tribal council and Jo Ann Trujillo president of the Sacramento Community Commission for Women The free program will be held at 7:30 pm in the Sutter Junior High School auditorium Alhambra Boulevard and I Street Reitman also is president of the newly formed Assembly of California Indian Women A major issue she is working on is Assembly Bill 1041 which would give preference to Native Americans in adopting or providing foster care for Native See PINAFORE Page B6 See INDIANS PageB5 by Lynn Johnston And Inside For Better or For Worse OffljTHprrDoESiTi I WflNT DISHWASHER UOO DO rfT NEED A DISHWASHER Ell "tpi'VEL Got he i Critic Stan Gilliam tells what he thought about the Charlie Pride concert Page B7 Columnist Dean Huber comments on a TV special aimed at teen boozers Page B9 'Admiral' Hutchinson 'Buttercup' Russick SB-.